Moving to TypePad

I've given up on dealing with my own hosting of Moveable Type for this blog. Dealing with the hassles of the installation, upgrades, spam filtering, etc. has been more work than I've been able to deal with, and has really kept me from commenting as quickly and easily as I'd like.

Not to mention that my hosts at H2Hosting.com have turned out to be difficult to deal with, have invoiced me late and inconsistently, have lost connectivity fairly regularly and generally have made this less than fun.

TypePad makes it relatively easy to transition stuff over, though some of the photo links will get broken in the process. I'll probably also take the opportunity to edit down some of the history.

For now, the new site is coming together at http://belowthecrowd.typepad.com. It'll have a slightly cleaner look but for now will feature similar graphics and headings. I'll probably clean those up over time as well. Advertising will also change, as I don't really feel like going with a completely custom template in order to support AdSense.

After the transition, this domain will point directly to the new home and this site will just go away.

I hope that by doing this, I'll actually be able to focus my energy on quickly and easily blogging rather than on dealing with technical and formatting issues.

-btc